Mountain men

“Barn Burning” by William Faulkner is a short story about how Colonel Sartoris Snopes, often referred to in the story as Sarty, struggles with morality and his family bonds as his father, Abner Snopes, commits acts of arson with a cold, calculated demeanor. The story starts with a court hearing about one such incident, a barn burning, where the Snopes end up banished from that county. After arriving at a new place, Abner takes Sarty to see their landlords for a reason not mentioned. The…

Comparative Essay “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka was written in 1962, set in London. Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright who was the first African that won the noble for literature in 1986. Few years later, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou was written in 1978 set in the American Slums of Harlem. Angelou is an educator, and civil rights activist. Together both poems explore the themes of prejudice and racial discrimination. “Telephone Conversation” explores the idea of racial prejudice…

Many of us have had an animal at some point in their life in which they loved and adored and would absolutely hate to lose. In the Budweiser 2015 Super Bowl commercial, the company portrays a relationship similar to this, between a farmer, a dog, and horse to try to persuade their audience to buy more of their products. In the commercial, Budweiser shows the devastation a farmer goes through as he has lost his dog and is unsure if he will ever see his again. This relationship is shown in the…

friendly companionship, intercourse,support, etc” (Dictionary.com). Difference in definition does not keep the two concepts from intertwining, and certainly does not keep people from inadvertently mistaking one for the other. Within the novel, Of Mice and Men, a few characters experience their own encounters…

Discrimination is so bad it can even lead to death. The novel Of Mice and Men shows how radically lives can be affected by discrimination. It can change a person’s live completely upside down for the worse. Steinbeck uses discrimination to dramatically affect characters such as Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife. To begin with, Lennie is treated completely differently because he is mentally challenged. George and Lennie are travelling to a ranch to find work when Lennie looks over to George…

J.D. Salinger portrays Muriel and Seymour Glass’s marriage as distant and noninteractive. The quote “The marriage between Seymour and Muriel is shown as one that is unhappy, empty, and distant” (Kerr) explains how bad their relationship. The author shows they probably do not talk that much or interact. “I don’t know, mother. I guess cause he’s so pale and all,’ said the girl, ‘Anyway, after Bingo he and his wife asked me if I wouldn’t like to join them for a drink. So I did” (Salinger ). The…

Gaming Loved Ones within Games: Ambiguity and Power Relations in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal Introduction: Power Relations Arising from Ambiguities “A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false” (p. 11); this was how Harold Pinter (1977) expounded the role of art in exploring reality in the Introduction to his collection of works. More than forty years later, Pinter repeated this quote as he began his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobel Media…

2018 Literary Analysis: A World of Pure Discrimination Set in the 1930s, the classic novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck follows the actions of two men, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, as they yearn for and work toward their American Dream. They meet many characters that have been unable to achieve this dream for various reasons. Candy, a poor, old, one-handed swamper gives the two men hope, when he offers to pay a large portion of the cost for their dream farm in return for a job.…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon. The story, written in a tone of fifteen years old boy Christopher, who is suffering from Asperger’s symptoms; limit his personal social ability and affect his relationship with others. In Christopher’s world, everything is so simple that has no access to complicated information, so he does not understand metaphors or human face expressions. That’s why he likes math, because it’s all reasonable, logical, and give him a…

Emmanuel Alvarez Mrs. Lutrell English 11 5th February 2018 Lennies devastated American Dream Of Mice and Men was a story beloved in American Literature with the setting of 1930’s and John Steinbeck at the helm. However, this beloved story comes with some startling discoveries as the underlying narrative is one of despair, alienation, and even dehumanization of the human body. As seen with Steinbeck's description and characterization of Lennie throughout the tale. Lennie is written as a giant…